{"id":287750,"date":"2026-05-28T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287750\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:50:10","slug":"cemex-expands-tampa-bay-terminal-as-florida-construction-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287750\/","title":{"rendered":"Cemex expands Tampa Bay terminal as Florida construction accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cemex and <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/2026\/05\/13\/port-tampa-bay-cruise-demand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port Tampa Bay<\/a> completed a $36 million expansion of a marine aggregate terminal that will increase the flow of raw construction materials into Tampa Bay as developers push to keep pace with rising housing and infrastructure demand across Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes a $29 million investment from Cemex and a $7 million grant from the Florida Department of Transportation. Company executives joined <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/2026\/04\/28\/port-tampa-bay-terminal-expansion-24m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port Tampa Bay<\/a> officials and Tampa Mayor Jane Castor on Thursday to mark the terminal\u2019s opening.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion comes as builders across Florida face increasing pressure to secure reliable supplies of aggregate, the crushed stone used in concrete, asphalt and large-scale infrastructure projects. A steady pipeline of apartment, industrial, transportation and public works developments across Tampa Bay has increased demand for those materials in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/burns-ct-19-1000x563.jpeg\" alt=\"Tampa Mayor Jane Castor and Cemex officials cut the ribbon at the expanded aggregate terminal at Port Tampa Bay.\" class=\"wp-image-91350\"  \/>Tampa Mayor Jane Castor joined Cemex and Port Tampa Bay officials for the terminal expansion opening.<\/p>\n<p>Cemex said the terminal will import aggregate from Newfoundland, Canada, through Port Tampa Bay\u2019s deepwater berths using a conveying system capable of moving 5,000 tons per hour from ship to storage. The company expects the facility to handle roughly 1.5 million tons annually depending on shipping conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The site now combines an aggregate terminal, cement terminal and ready-mix concrete plant in one location, making it the only integrated Cemex operation of its kind in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe completion of our Aggregate Terminal at Port Tampa Bay strengthens Cemex\u2019s ability to serve one of Florida\u2019s fastest-growing regions with the essential materials needed to build and maintain critical infrastructure,\u201d Jesus Gonzalez, president of Cemex US, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The project expands Port Tampa Bay\u2019s role in Florida\u2019s industrial supply chain as population growth and infrastructure spending continue driving freight and construction activity across the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPort Tampa Bay is proud to support Cemex\u2019s growing operations and the broader Tampa Bay economy,\u201d Port Tampa Bay President and CEO Paul Anderson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>  Read More Tampa Bay Business News<\/p>\n<p>\n    Explore the latest Tampa Bay <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/category\/business-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"16\" title=\"business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a> news, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/real-estate\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Real Estate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">real estate<\/a> deals, development projects, executive moves and company updates shaping the region.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cemex and Port Tampa Bay completed a $36 million expansion of a marine aggregate terminal that will increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-287750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}